pepper

Naija

Etymology

• From: English pepper
• biological name Piperaceae.

Pronunciation

• pɛ́pɛ̀

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 38
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 298
• Frequency in raw corpus: 185
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1390

Definition

• Wetin dem dey use cook wey dey burn for mouth.

Noun

1. wetin person dey add to food to make am burn for mouth.
   • Den I need pepper.  — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__53, Then I need pepper.)
   • Slice your pepper small, small.  — (ABJ_INF_02_Cooking-Recipes_M__22, Slice your pepper thinly.)

   Because if you go use any oder kind of pepper, e fit no give you dat smell...  — (NST_cleaned__35856, Because if you will use any other kind of pepper, it may not give that smell.)

2. When dem do person wetin pain am.
   • Jehovah go show Pharaoh pepper!  — (jw__9561, Jehovah will deal with Pharaoh )
   • If dem catch anybodi now, we go show dem serious pepper.  — (bbc__4257, Anyone caught will be seriously dealt with.).
3. Money
   • If na to, if na to spend di pepper, Nigerian man dey spend am.  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__79, If it is to spend the money, Nigerian man spends it.)
   • I dey, I dey tear di pepper, I dey spend am.  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__88, I spend the money, I spend it!)

Translations

• English: spice food, money, tease

Verb

1. when something dey pain person for body
   • Di things wey e talk dey pepper me for body.  — the things he said got me angry
   • Dis motor Lamborghini Veneno nickname na 'poison' and dat na di perfect car for babe wey just hama to pepper her haters dem.  — (bbc__40852, __no translation__)
   • E dey pepper me.  — (BEN_32_I-Don-Tire-For-All-Dese-Boys_DG__100, It is paining me.)
   • But wetin dey pepper Mendes for body na say Ronaldo score 15 goals and finish di competition as highest goal scorer but dem still slide am.  — (bbc__23713, __no translation__)

Translations

• English: be angry, disconcerting